| NOUN | substance | filament, fibril, strand | a very slender natural or synthetic fiber |
|---|---|---|---|
| plant | filament | the stalk of a stamen | |
| body | filament, filum | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | |
| artifact | filament | a thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current |
| Sounds | fih'lahmahnt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | A very slender natural or synthetic fiber. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | fibril, strand | |
| Narrower | barb | One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather |
| chromatid | One of two identical strands into which a chromosome splits during mitosis | |
| cobweb, gossamer | filaments from a web that was spun by a spider | |
| hypha | Any of the threadlike filaments forming the mycelium of a fungus | |
| myofibril, myofibrilla, sarcostyle | One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber | |
| paraphysis | A sterile simple or branched filament or hair borne among sporangia | |
| rhizoid | Any of various slender filaments that function as roots in mosses and ferns and fungi etc | |
| Broader | fiber, fibre | A slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
| Spanish | filamento | |
| Catalan | fibril·la, fibril, filament | |
| Adjectives | filamentous | thin in diameter |
| filar | related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | |
| Meaning | The stalk of a stamen. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | stalk, stem | A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
| Spanish | filamento | |
| Catalan | filament | |
| Meaning | A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells). | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | filum | |
| Narrower | hair, pilus | Any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal |
| Broader | structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
| Spanish | filamento, filum | |
| Catalan | filament, filum | |
| Meaning | A thin wire (usually tungsten) that is heated white hot by the passage of an electric current. | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of | light bulb, lightbulb, bulb, incandescent lamp, electric light, electric-light bulb | electric lamp consisting of a transparent or translucent glass housing containing a wire filament (usually tungsten) that emits light when heated by electricity |
| Broader | wire, conducting wire | A metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance |
| Spanish | filamento | |
| Catalan | filament | |
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